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Friday, January 6, 2012

As soon as mynew curtains were up and being admired from afar, I turned to my yarn stash, and without so much as a moment of guilt I started a second knitting project. I don't generally like having two knitting projects on the go (as I tend to forget what I am up to) but happily made an exception. This time.

Knitting is my time out, my relaxation, and I make no excuse for having repeated this pattern, Cladonia, for the third time. It is for the most part very easy knitting and purling, increasing stitches at regular intervals with stitch markers as reminders to do so. Perfect holiday knitting.

And the yarn ... so dreamy soft ... makes for the most gorgeous knitted "fabric". Some fierce wet blocking has also nicely removed the irregularities of my left handed knitting idiosyncrasies.

I have followed the pattern verbatim however admit to adding my own stripe study variation by introducing a third color, striping for three rows at regular intervals with the darker yarn which I then also went on to use for the lacy edge (and nicely finished up a leftover skein).

38 comments:

I recently started working in a yarn shop and figured I should probably learn to knit! I love the look of lace knitting but have been too scared to try it. Your shawls are so lovely they make me want to be brave and give it a go.

I was a knitter long before I took up quilting so I always have more than one knitting project on the needles - right now I think there's five pairs of socks, a blanket awaiting finishing, two more on the needles and an assortment of UFOs!

Oh wow, this is so beautiful! I just cast on for my first (of many?) Cladonia on New Year's Day. I am really enjoying knitting it! One of my yarns is Madelintosh, also. I like your idea of using the three colors instead of two--it's an interesting and subtle variation.